Original, unedited, video of Olga Lozano, born in Harlingen, Texas, who talks about her family as pioneers of Harlingen. Lozano describes pursuing a career in pharmacy, a career with not a lot of women when she started. Lozano worked at a drug store in San Benito, Texas, and later she worked at the Valley Baptist Hospital Pharmacy at Brownsville for twenty-nine years. She recounts the good and difficult days working as pharmacist at the Valley Baptist Hospital at Brownsville.
Creator/Contributor:
Medrano, Manuel, 1949- (collector) and Lozano, Olga (interviewee)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2005-10-07
Owning Repository:
Benson Latin American Collection, LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin
Mexican Americans, Texas--Social conditions, Mexicano americanos, and Texas--Condiciones sociales
Place Name:
Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, United States of America, Harlingen, Texas, United States of America, San Benito, Texas, United States of America, and Brownsville, Texas, United States of America
General Note:
Assigned production number 273. Duration of content within the file is 28 minutes, 30 seconds. All intellectual property rights are retained by the legal copyright holders. The University of Texas at Austin does not hold the copyright to the content of this file. Formal permission to reuse or republish this content must be obtained from the copyright holder. Material copyrighted to Dr. Manuel F. Medrano and The University of Texas at Brownsville. The assets of UT Brownsville are now held by The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
Origin Note:
Los del Valle oral history recordings transferred from The University of Texas at Brownsville to The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Digitized with funds from the Latin American Materials Project (LAMP), Center for Research Libraries.